Amazon.com essential recordingVolume 8 of the legendary Tiffany sessions focuses on many of the Wills band's best-known tunes. These versions have a looser feel than the studio recordings, and the band has the chance to stretch out a bit on "Sitting on Top of the World," "South," and "Trouble in Mind." Culled from eight different dates in 1946 and 1947, this collection shows many incarnations of the Playboys, including one with the underappreciated Junior Barnard on guitar. Famous Playboys such as singer Tommy Duncan, pianist Millard Kelso, steel men Noel Boggs and Herb Remington, mandolinist Tiny Moore, guitarist Eldon Shamblin, and fiddlers Joe Holley and Louis Tierney all have their say in between Wills's encouragements. Along with volume 2, this volume should be the entry point to the multivolume Tiffany Transcriptions. --Marc Greilsamer